Bangkok

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Kirstie made it out on Friday! Woo hoo! We've both been fairly caned with jet lag though. On the Friday night we went out for a few beers with two cool english lads David and Tom plus a swiss guy called Patrick. Saturday we mostly spent sleeping, when we got up we got conned by a "tourist information" person inside a temple on a holy day! Lovely! Although, we did get to see the big standing Bhudda.

On Sunday we decided to go and jump on the sky train to Chatuchuk to see the massive weekend market of 15,000 stalls which sell basically anything you can think of!

Yesterday we decided to get a bit more cultural in our sight-seeing and went to Wat Pho, a temple which is home to the reclining Bhudda, truly huge, about 45m long and 20m high! We did want to go and check out the Grand Palace too, however due to much confusion about whether it was closed to Westerners, closed full stop or not opening until 3pm... we missed out. However we did finally meet a nice thai man called Tong who gave us loads of good advice without trying to sell
Drinks on Khao San with David and Patrick
us anything.

Today we finally managed to get to the Grand Palace and it wasn't closed! Aptly named as it is very grand, so much detail, colour, and more than anything wealth, especially when seeing the temple which houses the Emerald Bhudda (actually made of jade!) which is the most sacred bhuddist site in Thailand.

We'll leave you with an interesting experience we just had when deciding upon eating from one of the stalls on Khao San Road...

Kirstie: I fancy one of those chicken skewers
Paul: Me too
Kirstie (pointing): That one looks safest
Paul to thai man tattooed over every inch of his body: Two please!
Kirstie: Not sure about this...
Paul: Its ok... tastes like pork...
Kirstie: Whats that bony bit there?
Paul: Looks like spine...
Kirstie: I'm not eating it!
Paul (eating more): Spine... wrapped around skewer? ... this is snake!!!

Bon appetite!

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Comments

[Lou]

Worlds wierdest drinking establishments
Yay you went to the petrol station pub!!! I loved that place, so bizzare. Sounds like you have had a good start, looking forward to hearing about all the rest. Speak soon. lou

[Ayesha]

Looks awesome mate. Hope you are both having an amazing time. Can't wait to see more pictures. Ax PS. Don't eat snakes, I'm sure they must be bad for you!

[Jen]

Hey Bud! Glad to see you and Kirsty are having a great time! Looks awesome! Im thinking of coming out around the end of July, where do you guys reckon you will be? A friend of mine may come too, and if all goes to plan we were thinking we'd stay a month roughly. I'll write a message on email too as not sure which is th ebest way to contact you but hopefully will speak soon!! Lots of love to you both, Jen xxxxxx

[big cous]

looks brilliant cous, cant wait to see more. Stay safe and have a geat time loads of love Tracey, Dave, Aaron and Natasha. x

[Gemma HO!]

You'be both made it!
Im so happy that you've both made it ok! It looks awesome and you both look really happy!Take care guys and really Kirstie taking a skewer off a completely tatooed man!Hehe!Take care! Love you lots xoxoxo

[maria and terry]

rapid kids!
glad its all going well, Terry is very envious, you must remember that Bangkok is his most favourite place in the whole wide world, even more than hernia bay. if you are wondering about the comment title, just got off the thames and it was a raging river, but won't bore you with details. p.s. Cazza got a 2/1, expect she will let you know. bye for now, love maria and terryxxx